How can you say they are forced to do this? That logic ranks right up there with the whole mutally assured desctruction Cold War bullcrap. You are making an assumption with little basis, how many things has Barne's and Noble's patented and sued Amazon over?
Outlook has crappy IMAP support, ever try and use filters on it? If you don't have Outlook open when the message hits the inbox it doesn't filter. Pretty darn useless if you ask me.
Amazon's within to get a patent. It isnt their faults that the UPSTO is a fucktard. If anything, I'd say we ought to move all 'questionable' content to offshore servers and BOYCOTT the US PATENT SYSTEM.
Come on, you make it sound like the USTPO forced them to make a broad patent, get real, Amazon is looking for more quick cash to grab, so they patent something everyone uses and sue sue sue. There always a differance between what is legal and what is morally corrent.
Step 1: This is simply yet another reason to not shop at Amazon. Show them that you don't belive in their system, don't shop there or at any of its affiliates. And make sure you tell everyone you know why you don't shop there.
Step 2: Start collecting anything that might be relevant prior art. Seeing as this was applied for in 1999 there has to be something. I personally am stunned that something this trivial is a patent, gotta love the USPTO.
But you can claim rights to a number, last time I checked a google was 1 with a 100 zeros behind it and a googleplex was a 1 with a google zeros behind it. So can I name my site "ten" and then get a mark on ten so no one can turn it into a verb?
Walmart already tracks everything....
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"But what happens to privacy when everything you buy can be tracked from store floor to door?"
I hate to be the one to break this too you, but Walmart already tracks EVERYTHING they sell. Every purchase goes into these giant NCR Terradata setups back at their home office. They mine it for trends and such already and have been doing so for years. So this really don't change that. The real question is how to you make sure the RFID tag is really deactivated?
India is in such a poor state currently because it was basically a British slave state until about 50-60 years ago, it has billions of people and is in the proccess of switching from an agrarian economy to a capitailist one. The fact that they are at the state they are today is amazing. The corruption isn't the cause, the corruption is a side effect (look at the USSR). My guess is should India continue on its current path it will be a super power in maybe 100 years or less (something close to half the time it took the US).
As for the European Space Agency? Get real the Euros are lucky they can agree on the pictures on their curreny much less run a decent space program. Sure they aren't corrupt, but they don't work well together and the bulk of the European contries are socialist states, and boy do those guys spend money.
My money in the future is on the Indians and/or the Chinese. Heck if you out sourced NASA to India you would save billions on engineers alone!!!!!
Here's my proposal: shut down NASA altogether, then take all the money we were using to fund it, and send it to Russia instead. Obviously, they'll make far more effective use of the money than we will.
The Russian's have their own amount of graft going on, I remember a 20/20 special on the Russian Space Agency. It was something to the effect of Engineers going hungry and looting Mir resupply shuttles for food, but the top brass in Russia were using US funds to build giant houses for themselves.
I personally think the space program should go commercial, or we should fund India's space program. Ours and Russias are relics of the Cold War.
I don't care how smart he is, or how great a programmer he is; he can be civil to other. I agree, he is a great asset, but you know what he really could be an even greater asset if he could just work with others.
Personally, I wouldn't want anyone who can't work in a group working any where near me, no matter how good they are at whatever they do. Humans are social creatures and if you can't work in that, even a little then you are considerably more worthless then someone who can. Haven't you heard the whole saying "No man is an island", well it holds true here.
Uh, gotta say I am informed on this......
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MicroBSD Is No More
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Give me a break, I saw this whole shitstorm start the other day on the Misc mailing list, I saw Theo's orginal post about 2 minutes after he made it and I knew it was going to start trouble.
In my opinion it should have been taken to the developer or team lead on MicroBSD and discussed in a civil manner. Making a huge public scene about it solve nothing and only starts fights. Adults handle things civilly and without a damn knock down drag out. There is no need to be a jackass to others in public, it solves NOTHING. Here is my assesment of how it was handled, MicroBSD is GONE, completely, a bunch of people are burned and probably will think twice before they contribute. Hmmm sounds like it sure as hell wasn't solved for the best. And this isn't the first time people have fought like crazy over OpenBSD. WHAT IS THE POINT?
As for the whole "Theo is smart he can be rude or mean if he wants" line I hear all the time. I personally don't care how smart someone is, if they can't work civilling in a group then they aren't that smart. You can be a genius and not be a social retard.
And you seem to miss the whole point, there is no need to be an "arrogant baby", period, it is wasted effort, pointless energy spent, I don't care if you are damn Einstien or Hawkins or freaking Linus or Theo, be civil, it isn't hard, it will get you a damn lot farther then being an ass.
Yes, these guys really screwed the pooch, not doubt about that, same source with the MicroBSD stamp on it, can't question that.
What is stupid is the way this was handled. Rather then acting like adults Theo and others make personal attacks, against projects, against persons etc. WTF? From everything I have seen all the BSD projects seem to simply be full of arrogant babies. Grow up guys, grow the fuck up.
Gotta call BS on this one too buddy, just because he is a professor of Anthropology doesn't mean he knows ANYTHING about genetics. Most Anthropoligist have maybe a semester of genetics (and we are talking the high level stuff, not actual genetics), and they rarely if ever take the underlying Biology and Chemistry courses (Anthropology is considered a liberal art, rather then a science, so the actual science courses are not required). So unless this professor got his undergrad or masters in biology or genetics, it is quite possible that anyone on this site could know more about genetics. Anthropology is the study of people and why they do things, not genetics, it is more like Sociology then Biology.
...as well as any tips towards curing the inevitable latency issues...
Really not going to cure the latency issues, since the main problem involves the speed of light being limited to 186,000 miles/second and the satellite being in orbit about 40,000 miles up, meaning 80,000 miles both ways, in turn equaling about half a second of travel time. So sure you can tweak the TCP/IP stack, but the main problem is you will be lucky to ever get a ping better then 600ms, more then likely you will get something on the order or 1000ms or worse.
It is ok if you have no other solutions, but be aware that the latency is mind numbing at times, especially for Internet access. The geosync orbit of the satellites adds almost a half a second to the round trip (and that is simply the electromagnetic signal traveling the 80,000 miles it takes to get there and come back), so on average your best ping will be at least 900-1000ms, least that is my experience with bidirectional satellite Internet access. Other then that it is good for transferring large files and stuff, just tweak your TCP/IP stack, just sucks if you have to do lots of small files or shell access, they are doable, but the latency will drive you nuts.
Why do you "have" to go satellite? Is terrestrial wireless an option?
Here, basically the German's had abandoned the idea of a "nuclear bomb" because they belived that the amount of uranium required for a critical mass would require something on the order of a giant barge to deliver, making it impractical as a weapon. Here is information on Hiesenberg's reaction to hearing of the Allied nuke.
I love how history gets re-written. The Nazi's were never building a bomb, they didn't even think it was possible (the captured German scientists were amazed when they heard the US had developed an atomic weapon). The Nazi's were actually trying to build an atomic reactor to power a large battleship or something of that ilk.
The point is the fact that humans change their environment rather then adapt to it, whether it be with AC, buffalo skin tents, white clothing or even a simple structure made from fallen branches. The last major physical thing we "adapted" to would probably be UV radiation and the production of vitamin D (hence the reason people have different skin colors).
"Is global warming also affecting human evolution?"
The envionment really stopped effecting human evolution once we started to manipulate it, so it is unlikely that you will see any similar effects in humans. If it gets to hot for us, we just crank up the AC.
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How can you say they are forced to do this? That logic ranks right up there with the whole mutally assured desctruction Cold War bullcrap. You are making an assumption with little basis, how many things has Barne's and Noble's patented and sued Amazon over?
I guess my question is where do you draw the line? Or do you? Does a companies moral stance and corporate policy matter to you?
Outlook has crappy IMAP support, ever try and use filters on it? If you don't have Outlook open when the message hits the inbox it doesn't filter. Pretty darn useless if you ask me.
I will not stop shopping with Amazon over this.
You seem to be the type who would sit by while people were moved out of their homes to special reedcuation camps. Gotta love American apathy.
Amazon's within to get a patent. It isnt their faults that the UPSTO is a fucktard. If anything, I'd say we ought to move all 'questionable' content to offshore servers and BOYCOTT the US PATENT SYSTEM.
Come on, you make it sound like the USTPO forced them to make a broad patent, get real, Amazon is looking for more quick cash to grab, so they patent something everyone uses and sue sue sue. There always a differance between what is legal and what is morally corrent.
Step 1: This is simply yet another reason to not shop at Amazon. Show them that you don't belive in their system, don't shop there or at any of its affiliates. And make sure you tell everyone you know why you don't shop there.
Step 2: Start collecting anything that might be relevant prior art. Seeing as this was applied for in 1999 there has to be something. I personally am stunned that something this trivial is a patent, gotta love the USPTO.
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"you can't claim proprietary rights to a verb"
But you can claim rights to a number, last time I checked a google was 1 with a 100 zeros behind it and a googleplex was a 1 with a google zeros behind it. So can I name my site "ten" and then get a mark on ten so no one can turn it into a verb?
"But what happens to privacy when everything you buy can be tracked from store floor to door?"
I hate to be the one to break this too you, but Walmart already tracks EVERYTHING they sell. Every purchase goes into these giant NCR Terradata setups back at their home office. They mine it for trends and such already and have been doing so for years. So this really don't change that. The real question is how to you make sure the RFID tag is really deactivated?
India is in such a poor state currently because it was basically a British slave state until about 50-60 years ago, it has billions of people and is in the proccess of switching from an agrarian economy to a capitailist one. The fact that they are at the state they are today is amazing. The corruption isn't the cause, the corruption is a side effect (look at the USSR). My guess is should India continue on its current path it will be a super power in maybe 100 years or less (something close to half the time it took the US).
As for the European Space Agency? Get real the Euros are lucky they can agree on the pictures on their curreny much less run a decent space program. Sure they aren't corrupt, but they don't work well together and the bulk of the European contries are socialist states, and boy do those guys spend money.
My money in the future is on the Indians and/or the Chinese. Heck if you out sourced NASA to India you would save billions on engineers alone!!!!!
Here's my proposal: shut down NASA altogether, then take all the money we were using to fund it, and send it to Russia instead. Obviously, they'll make far more effective use of the money than we will.
The Russian's have their own amount of graft going on, I remember a 20/20 special on the Russian Space Agency. It was something to the effect of Engineers going hungry and looting Mir resupply shuttles for food, but the top brass in Russia were using US funds to build giant houses for themselves.
I personally think the space program should go commercial, or we should fund India's space program. Ours and Russias are relics of the Cold War.
I don't care how smart he is, or how great a programmer he is; he can be civil to other. I agree, he is a great asset, but you know what he really could be an even greater asset if he could just work with others.
Personally, I wouldn't want anyone who can't work in a group working any where near me, no matter how good they are at whatever they do. Humans are social creatures and if you can't work in that, even a little then you are considerably more worthless then someone who can. Haven't you heard the whole saying "No man is an island", well it holds true here.
Give me a break, I saw this whole shitstorm start the other day on the Misc mailing list, I saw Theo's orginal post about 2 minutes after he made it and I knew it was going to start trouble.
In my opinion it should have been taken to the developer or team lead on MicroBSD and discussed in a civil manner. Making a huge public scene about it solve nothing and only starts fights. Adults handle things civilly and without a damn knock down drag out. There is no need to be a jackass to others in public, it solves NOTHING. Here is my assesment of how it was handled, MicroBSD is GONE, completely, a bunch of people are burned and probably will think twice before they contribute. Hmmm sounds like it sure as hell wasn't solved for the best. And this isn't the first time people have fought like crazy over OpenBSD. WHAT IS THE POINT?
As for the whole "Theo is smart he can be rude or mean if he wants" line I hear all the time. I personally don't care how smart someone is, if they can't work civilling in a group then they aren't that smart. You can be a genius and not be a social retard.
And you seem to miss the whole point, there is no need to be an "arrogant baby", period, it is wasted effort, pointless energy spent, I don't care if you are damn Einstien or Hawkins or freaking Linus or Theo, be civil, it isn't hard, it will get you a damn lot farther then being an ass.
Yes, these guys really screwed the pooch, not doubt about that, same source with the MicroBSD stamp on it, can't question that.
What is stupid is the way this was handled. Rather then acting like adults Theo and others make personal attacks, against projects, against persons etc. WTF? From everything I have seen all the BSD projects seem to simply be full of arrogant babies. Grow up guys, grow the fuck up.
I think it really was raditaion from orbiting solar debris, I had forgetten my foil hat, or was it statis electrcity from slide rules?
Gotta call BS on this one too buddy, just because he is a professor of Anthropology doesn't mean he knows ANYTHING about genetics. Most Anthropoligist have maybe a semester of genetics (and we are talking the high level stuff, not actual genetics), and they rarely if ever take the underlying Biology and Chemistry courses (Anthropology is considered a liberal art, rather then a science, so the actual science courses are not required). So unless this professor got his undergrad or masters in biology or genetics, it is quite possible that anyone on this site could know more about genetics. Anthropology is the study of people and why they do things, not genetics, it is more like Sociology then Biology.
You lost me here, if satellites don't use light "ie electromagentic radiation", then what do they use? Hamsters?
Sorry, I must have been hopped up on goofballs or something.
...as well as any tips towards curing the inevitable latency issues...
Really not going to cure the latency issues, since the main problem involves the speed of light being limited to 186,000 miles/second and the satellite being in orbit about 40,000 miles up, meaning 80,000 miles both ways, in turn equaling about half a second of travel time. So sure you can tweak the TCP/IP stack, but the main problem is you will be lucky to ever get a ping better then 600ms, more then likely you will get something on the order or 1000ms or worse.
It is ok if you have no other solutions, but be aware that the latency is mind numbing at times, especially for Internet access. The geosync orbit of the satellites adds almost a half a second to the round trip (and that is simply the electromagnetic signal traveling the 80,000 miles it takes to get there and come back), so on average your best ping will be at least 900-1000ms, least that is my experience with bidirectional satellite Internet access. Other then that it is good for transferring large files and stuff, just tweak your TCP/IP stack, just sucks if you have to do lots of small files or shell access, they are doable, but the latency will drive you nuts.
Why do you "have" to go satellite? Is terrestrial wireless an option?
Here, basically the German's had abandoned the idea of a "nuclear bomb" because they belived that the amount of uranium required for a critical mass would require something on the order of a giant barge to deliver, making it impractical as a weapon. Here is information on Hiesenberg's reaction to hearing of the Allied nuke.
Or just get this ISO and boot, WHAMMO instant access, and it is 100% free, unlike the Windows 2000 CD:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
I love how history gets re-written. The Nazi's were never building a bomb, they didn't even think it was possible (the captured German scientists were amazed when they heard the US had developed an atomic weapon). The Nazi's were actually trying to build an atomic reactor to power a large battleship or something of that ilk.
The point is the fact that humans change their environment rather then adapt to it, whether it be with AC, buffalo skin tents, white clothing or even a simple structure made from fallen branches. The last major physical thing we "adapted" to would probably be UV radiation and the production of vitamin D (hence the reason people have different skin colors).
"Is global warming also affecting human evolution?"
The envionment really stopped effecting human evolution once we started to manipulate it, so it is unlikely that you will see any similar effects in humans. If it gets to hot for us, we just crank up the AC.